Logic Works

A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic

Lorne Falkenstein (Western University, Canada), Scott Stapleford, Molly Kao

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Routledge
30 November 2021

Philosophy: logic; Philosophy of mathematics; Mathematical logic; Computing: general; Computer science

Logic Works is a critical and extensive introduction to logic. It asks questions about why systems of logic are as they are, how they relate to ordinary language and ordinary reasoning, and what alternatives there might be to classical logical doctrines.

The book covers classical first-order logic and alternatives, including intuitionistic, free, and many-valued logic. It also considers how logical analysis can be applied to carefully represent the reasoning employed in academic and scientific work, better understand that reasoning, and identify its hidden premises. Aiming to be as much a reference work and handbook for further, independent study as a course text, it covers more material than is typically covered in an introductory course. It also covers this material at greater length and in more depth with the purpose of making it accessible to those with no prior training in logic or formal systems.

Online support material includes a detailed student solutions manual with a running commentary on all starred exercises, and a set of editable slide presentations for course lectures.

Key Features

Introduces an unusually broad range of topics, allowing instructors to craft courses to meet a range of various objectives

Adopts a critical attitude to certain classical doctrines, exposing students to alternative ways to answer philosophical questions about logic

Carefully considers the ways natural language both resists and lends itself to formalization

Makes objectual semantics for quantified logic easy, with an incremental, rule-governed approach assisted by numerous simple exercises

Makes important metatheoretical results accessible to introductory students through a discursive presentation of those results and by using simple case studies

By: Lorne Falkenstein (Western University Canada), Scott Stapleford, Molly Kao
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 1.746kg
ISBN: 9780367460303
ISBN 10: 0367460300
Pages: 666
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lorne Falkenstein is Professor Emeritus at Western University in London, Canada, where he taught symbolic logic for many years. He has published on treatments of spatial representation, temporal awareness, and visual perception in the work of a number of 17th and 18th century philosophers, and continues to do work in that area. Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. He is the author of Kant’s Transcendental Arguments: Disciplining Pure Reason (2008), coauthor (with Tyron Goldschmidt) of Berkeley’s Principles: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2016) and Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2021), coeditor (with Kevin McCain) of Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (Routledge, 2020), and coeditor (with Kevin McCain and Matthias Steup) of Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles (Routledge, 2021). Molly Kao is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, in Montreal, Canada. Her primary area of research is philosophy of science, having worked on issues in the development of quantum theory as well as methodological questions involving unification and confirmation.

Reviews for Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic

Logic works is a thorough treatment of core topics in elementary logic, and of several topics in intermediate logic. Its precision and rigor is a step above typical presentations of this material. It will be an invaluable resource for teachers, as well as for students of logic who want to go beyond the basics. Fabrizio Cariani, University of Maryland